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AN MPs’ report into anti-semitism faced criticism yesterday as an apparent political bias against the Labour Party risked undermining its conclusions.
The home affairs select committee’s Anti-Semitism in the UK report argued that “the failure of the Labour Party to deal consistently and effectively with anti-semitic incidents … risks lending force to allegations that elements of the labour movement are institutionally anti-semitic.”
It singled out the highly controversial cases of Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker as evidence that Labour was not taking the issue sufficiently seriously, and questioned the independence of a Labour investigation into anti-semitism by long-standing human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti because she later received a peerage.
As the anti-fascist movement mourns the death of Gerry Gable, his long-time comrade and former Searchlight editor STEVE SILVER reflects on the life of an indispensable activist who spent six decades infiltrating, exposing and undermining fascism
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
